球孢白僵菌固态罐发酵产孢培养的研究

建立了一套两升圆柱体玻璃发酵罐的固态通风培养装置及通风系统。以球孢白僵菌Bb371为生产菌,培养基220g(82％麸皮 4．5％黄豆粉 4．5％玉米粉 9％稻壳)作为生产原料,接种30ml,23℃培养温度下,分阶段调节通风量和空气湿度,培养5d,产孢量可达到116亿／g干培养基。     

球孢白僵菌继代培养中的菌落局变现象

通过球孢白僵菌两个野生型菌株及其单孢株在不同培养基、温度、湿度和光照条件下继代培养,结果产生3种不同类型的菌落局变.局变产生的分离子多表现为菌落瘩薄或气生菌丝陡长、产孢量下降、生长速率增加等现象.培养基、温度、湿度和光照等因素对菌落局变有明显诱导作用.湿度为15℃,相对湿度较低及全光照条件下于SDAY培养基上培养,局变发生频率最低.在实验室继代培养中,野生型菌株在4-14代内即可发生局变而被局变分离子所取代.引人注意的是,单孢株局变产生的分离子同时伴随着棕黄色或红棕色素的分泌,仅以菌落形态和颜色等培养特征作为球孢白僵菌种的划分依据是不可靠的.文中提出了菌落局变发生的遗传变异可能机制.     

球孢白僵菌对温室蚜虫的侵染生物学

研究了球孢白僵菌在不同浓度、施菌方式、温度和相对湿度下对温室蚜虫的侵染力以及接种后对蚜虫的侵染速率。结果表明,高(109个孢子.mL-1)、中(108个孢子.mL-1)、低(107个孢子.mL-1)3个浓度剂量对蚜虫都有较强的致病力,且浓度越大,蚜虫的死亡率越高,死亡时间越提前。用浸渍法和孢子浴法接种蚜虫,6 d的累积死亡率分别为100%和31.1%。在测试的3个温度(22、26、30℃)中,26℃时蚜虫侵染力最强,第3天出现死亡高峰,第5天时累积死亡率就达到100%,明显高于22、30℃的处理。相对湿度越大,球孢白僵菌的致病力越强,蚜虫死亡速度越快。在温湿度组合中相对湿度为95%时,温度对白僵菌的侵染力几乎无影响,但影响发病速度,相对湿度低于95%时,26℃的侵染力始终高于22和30℃时的侵染力。通过接种后不同时间段用0.2%百菌清处理蚜虫测定该菌株的侵染速率,结果表明接种后24 h是该球孢白僵菌有效侵染蚜虫的关键时期。     

球孢白僵菌菌株间差异性的研究

本文对不同来源的4个球孢白僵菌菌株进行了培养观察。在培养基量、接种量相同;培养条件一致的情况下,比较它们之间的产孢量。并通过生物检测,计算出对菜青虫的致死中时。结果表明,菌株间在培养性状、产孢量及毒力诸方面均存在差异。     

从松叶蜂分离的球孢白僵菌及其致病性

从东北伊通红松林采集的自然染病死亡的帕克阿扁松叶蜂Acantholyda 虫尸上分离获得一株球孢白僵菌,定名为FDB01。用该菌株孢子悬浮液感染油松阿扁叶蜂Acantholyda posticalis和落叶松叶蜂Pristiphora erichsonii幼虫,研究该菌株的致病情况。结果表明,用浓度为2×108孢子/mL的孢子悬浮液处理16d后,该菌株对油松阿扁叶蜂和落叶松叶蜂的致死率分别达到了94.4%和100%,说明该菌株对松叶蜂具有很强的致病力。     

球孢白僵菌混菌培养的遗传学分析

放线酮抗性及34℃耐受性不同的球孢白僵菌两营养亲和单孢株经混合培养,能够形成异核体。在分生孢子形成的单倍化过程中,异核体中的染色体或其片段发生连续丢失,至少经4代准性循环,遗传性状才会趋于相对稳定。遗传标记及RAPD分析表明,异核体中染色体的丢失并非随机的,重组株的遗传性状表现为倾向选择,即子代主要只表现为某一母株的遗传性状,另一亲本型性状被完全抑制或其遗传物质被丢失。混合比例不同、培养介质不同可影响准性生殖过程及倾向选择频率。混菌培养有利于优良性状的保持。     

白僵菌固态发酵试验研究

以产孢量为指标,筛选出白僵菌固态发酵的培养基为：90％麦麸＋5％玉米粉＋5％黄豆粉,原孢粉的产孢量可达244．7亿／g。在25m^3发酵罐内进行浅盘固态发酵,培养基的最适起始含水率为60％～65％;最佳通气条件为：前12h不通气,12～48h通气量为1：2,48～144h的通气量为1：1;而温度只需在12～48＋8h内进行控制。常温干燥能最大限度地维持白僵菌的活孢率。     

Transformation of cinoxacin by Beauveria bassiana

The ability of the fungus Beauveria bassiana ATCC 7159 to transform the antibacterial agent cinoxacin was investigated. Cultures in sucrose-peptone broth were dosed with cinoxacin, grown for 20 days, and then extracted with ethyl acetate. Two metabolites were detected and purified by high-performance liquid chromatography. The major metabolite was identified by mass and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra as 1-ethyl-1,4-dihydro-3-(hydroxymethyl)[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-g]cinnolin-4-one and the minor metabolite was identified as 1-ethyl-1,4-dihydro-6,7-dihydroxy-3-(hydroxymethyl)cinnolin-4-one. B. bassiana also reduced quinoline-3-carboxylic acid to 3-(hydroxymethyl)quinoline.     

Modelling Beauveria bassiana horizontal transmission

1 We modelled horizontal transmission of Beauveria bassiana in Colorado potato beetle (CPB) between larval cadavers and soil inhabiting prepupae. 2 The rate of disease transmission, based on the probability of a prepupa contacting sporulating cadavers on the soil surface, is a non‐linear function of cadaver density and also dependent upon temperature. 3 The spatial pattern of cadavers is needed to estimate prepupal contacts with cadavers. Observational field studies determined Johnson distributions to model the spatial pattern of cadavers and prepupae in the field. The model also implicitly incorporates within‐field larval spatial pattern into estimates of field‐level horizontal transmission. 4 Potential for horizontal transmission is higher in simulations using weather data from the warmer year of 1995, than in simulations of the cooler growing season of 1993. 5 Simulations of CPB populations under northern Maine climatic conditions recorded in 1993 and 1995 suggest that horizontal transmission can range from 3 to 24% depending upon the timing of primary infection of larvae in the field. 6 Two simulated sequential applications of B. bassiana targeted at peak first instars resulted in maximum horizontal infection in both years. 7 Sensitivity analysis suggests that horizontal transmission is most sensitive to changes in the proportion of cadavers that sporulate and least sensitive to changes in the time between larval death and the onset of cadaver sporulation. 8 Field validation of the model indicates good prediction of one measure of horizontal infection, the proportion of prepupae which eventually sporulated after being released in controlled field experiments.     

Medium components and culture conditions affect the thermotolerance of aerial conidia of fungal biocontrol agent Beauveria bassiana

AIMS: To produce more thermotolerable conidia of Beauveria bassiana, a well-known fungal biocontrol agent, by optimizing the medium components and culture conditions. METHODS AND RESULTS: The conidia produced on media including 0.5-6% glucose, sucrose or starch as carbon source and 50-300-microg ml(-1) Cu2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ or Fe3+ as additive to Sabouraud dextrose medium at 15-30 degrees C, pH 4-8 or KCl-adjusted water availabilities were exposed to 30-min wet heat stress at 48 degrees C. The medium components for conidial production with greatly enhanced thermotolerance included 4% glucose as optimum or 1% starch as alternative for the carbon source and < or =50-microg ml(-1) Mn2+ for the metal additive. The culture conditions were optimized as 25 degrees C and pH 5-6. Conidial thermotolerance decreased remarkably when sucrose and Fe3+ or Cu2+ were used in the cultures, but altered slightly when 50-200-microg ml(-1) Zn2+ were included. CONCLUSIONS: The tolerance of B. bassiana conidia to the thermal stress was significantly affected by the medium composition and culture conditions under which the conidia were produced. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Proper treatment of small grains as mass production substrates for more glucose release and supplement of glucose or 50-microg ml(-1) Mn2+ are possible means to enhancing conidial thermotolerance and field persistence for improved insect control.     

Light stimulates conidiation of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana

Beauveria bassiana is a commercially important entomopathogenic fungus. Like other insect fungal pathogens, B. bassiana usually produces asexual reproductive bodies, conidia, for dispersal, transmission and infection of insects. Adequate mass-production of high quality conidia is crucial to development of an efficient B. bassiana insecticide. However, little is known about details of conidiation in this fungus in response to environmental signals, which limits understanding of the mechanism of conidiation and improvement in conidia production. Here, morphologenetic changes of B. bassiana under different light conditions are reported. When cultured in total darkness, B. bassiana hyphae can grow continuously with few reproductive structures differentiated, while illumination with white light resulted in prolific formation of conidiophores bearing abundant conidia, indicating that light could stimulate conidiation of B. bassiana. Among the single colour lights tested, blue light was the most effective to stimulating sporulation. Colonies became adapted for blue light stimulus only after hyphae had grown in total darkness for at least 96 h, whereas the photoadaptation obviously declined after 144 h. For the exposure time, 3 min of blue light pulse was enough to stimulate conidiation in the photoadapted mycelia, while prolonged light exposure over 3 min resulted in a decrease in conidia yield. Our results provided useful clues for understanding the mechanism of conidiation mediated by light in B. bassiana.     

蜡蚧轮枝菌和球孢白僵菌的共发酵

【目的】球孢白僵菌(Beauveria bassiana)和蜡蚧轮枝菌(Verticillium lecanii)是国内外目前研究应用最广泛的杀虫生防真菌,欲扩大其防治范围、增强防治效果、降低生防成本。【方法】采用共发酵技术,通过组合菌株产孢能力和杀虫毒力比较试验,确定蜡蚧轮枝菌和球孢白僵菌共发酵的可行性。【结果】蜡蚧轮枝菌L-31和球孢白僵菌Q-55共发酵的最佳配比为1:1时,按10%总量接种于发酵培养液中(培养液按酵母膏5.0 g/L、葡萄糖20.0 g/L、麦芽糖提取物5.0 g/L、KH2PO43.0 g/L、黄小米200.0 g/L,pH 6.5配制),23.0°C±0.1°C恒温静置发酵12 d,共发酵液的含孢量可达1×109CFU/mL以上,杀虫毒力比较强,其对温室白粉虱和菜青虫可同时显效,处理9 d后的致死中浓度LC50分别为2.09×104±0.12 CFU/mL和3.17×105±0.11 CFU/mL,发酵液浓度为1×108CFU/mL时的致死中时间LT50分别为2.11±0.14 d和4.27±0.43 d,温室小区试验校正防效在80%以上,与其各单一菌株发酵液的防效之间存在显著性差异。【结论】通过两株生防真菌的共发酵研究,为杀虫真菌的扩谱增效以及植物害虫的有效防治提供科学依据和有效途径。     

Cloning of a cuticle-degrading protease from the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana

Abstract A Beauveria bassiana extracellular subtilisin-like serine endoprotease is a potential virulence factor by virtue of its activity against insect cuticles. A cDNA clone of the protease was isolated from mycelia of B. bassiana grown on cuticle/chitin cultures. The amino acid sequence of this gene was compared to that of Metarhizium anisopliae Pr1, the only pathogenicity determinant so far described from an entomopathogenic fungus, and proteinase K, isolated from Tritirachium album , a saprophytic fungus. The cDNA sequence revealed that B. bassiana Prl is synthesized as a large precursor ( M _r 37 460) containing a signal peptide, a propeptide and the mature protein predicted to have an M _r of 26 832.     

Beauveria bassiana infection of eggs of stored-product beetles

Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin was tested under maximum challenge conditions with an estimated dose of 1.1 × 10⁵ conidia/mm² for its effects on eggs of four of the major beetle pests of stored grain and grain products. When ambient relative humidity (RH) was 92%, hatch of fungus-treated Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius) eggs was 13% versus 58% for control eggs, and hatch of treated Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) was 17% versus 51% for controls. There was no fungus effect at RH of 48 and 73%. Fungus treatment of Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens) and Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Linnaeus) eggs had no effect. Sectioned T. castaneum eggs demonstrated that the fungus penetrates and infects them.     

Review on safety of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria brongniartii

The commercial use of entomopathogenic fungi and their products as mycoinsecticides necessitates their registration. Worldwide, several registration guidelines are available, however, most of them focus on similar or even the same safety issues. With respect to the two entomopathogenic fungi, Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. and Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch, many commercial products have been developed, and numerous papers on different biological, environmental, toxicological and other safety aspects have been published during the past 30-40 years. The aim of the present review is to summarise these data. The following safety issues are presented: (1) identity of Beauveria spp.; (2) biological properties of Beauveria spp. (history, natural occurrence and geographical distribution, host range, mode of action, production of metabolites/toxins, effect of environmental factors); (3) analytical methods to determine and quantify residues; (4) fate and behaviour in the environment (mobility and persistence in air, water and soil); (5) effects on non-target organisms (non-target microorganisms, plants, soil organisms, aquatic organisms, predators, parasitoids, honey bees, earth worms and nontarget arthropods); (6) effects on vertebrates (fish, amphibia, reptiles and birds); and (7) effects on mammals and human health. Based on the present knowledge it is concluded that both Beauveria species are considered to be safe.